Marking cloth and apparatus therefor.



No. 627,779. f Patented lune 27, |899.

J. MARSDEN.

MARKING CLOTH AND' APPARATUS THEBEFOR.

- (Application led Dec. 80, 1897.)

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:UNITED l STATES y PATENT E'FIcE JAMES MARSDEN, or wreAN, ENGLAND.

MARKING C,I OTH AND APPARATUS THEREFOR.l

' Ls'rncr,FIcA'rIoN foraigigpaa of Letters Patenti' 'N o. 627,779, dated June' 257, 189e." A

Application iiled December 30. 8 97. Serial No. 664,725. (Ilo model.)

To all whom it may concern:i

Be it known that I, JAMES MARSDEN, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, residing at Wigan, in the county of Lancaster, England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Marking Cloth, (for which I have received Letters Patent in England,-No. 7,311, dated March 20, 1897; in France, No. 266,486, dated April 30, 1897; in

Hungary, No. 9,433, dated April 30, 1897; in A Spain, No. 21,134, dated August 19, 1897; in

Italy, Vol. XXXIII, No. 45,211, and Vol. LXXXVIII, No. 206, dated September 30, 1897, and in Belgium, No. 129,188, dated June 30, 1897 of which the followingis a specification.

In the process of marking out cloth by meansl of a templet if aliquid or semiliquid material be used with the templet it is apt to fill up the openings of the templet and the templet is practically spoiled after one use unlessit be very carefully cleaned, also a liquid material is apt to spoil the templet, while if a pulverulent material be used it is very easily removed from the cloth, so that if the cloth be knocked about at all the pattern disappears from it.

My present invention relates to an improved machine for marking out cloth in accordance with the process covered by my application iiled May 3, 1897, Serial No. 634,846, which is designed to place a permanent pattern on the cloth and yet do it by means of a marking material which shall not affect the templet in any Way. In this processI employ a markingpowder which becomes sticky when heated, said powder consisting, preferably, of, iirst, a body color, such as chalk, pipe-clay, whiting, or other neutral powder, and, second,

powdered rosin orother like powder.

To this end myinvention comprises a heating-roller adapted to be brought into rolling contact with the cloth after the desired pattern has been stenciled upon it and a rubber of absorbent material held against the heating-roller and adapted to be thrown off from the roller when the latter is not in movement. By this means the heating-roller is freed from any sticky particles of the marking-powder before it again comes in contact wit-,hule @19th, `.Income imam with the heat-g ing-rolll preferably employ a long vilattable upon which the cloth may be placed, a perforated stencil adapted to be laid out upon the cloth andw through whichthe markingpowderis vrubbedgand a series of rollers revolving at the same peripheral speed in the same direction and inclosing a trough-shaped space for automatically rolling up the marked material 'as' it passes under the heating-roll:

In marking out black or dark-'colored cloths a mixture of three parts ofwhiting and two parts of resin is all that is required. Where White orf light cloths have to be marked, the addition of a coloring-matter or the use of a fine dark or black powder-such-as, for instance,'1ampblack, oxid of iron, or the likecan beu sed instead of chalk orvvith the chalk. In order that lmy invention may be more clearly understood, however, I append a perspective view-of the actual table and rolling device used by me. f A is the table; AB, the cloth; C, the templet laid thereon; D, a heating-roller heat-ed by gas-j ets from pipe F; D', a roller for guiding the marked cloth onto rollers E and E', which rollers are suitably geared together and run from the axle of roll D; H, a guard-rail pivoted in the side frame and provided with a bar of Wood or iron K, the under side of which vbar is covered with gladding (thick iannel more like felt) or the like; I, shelves v useful for depositing templets not in immeis imparted to the whole machine through the revolving of the roller D and the gearing connected therewith. f

The bar K of the guard-rail, which extends the whole length of the roller D and rests thereon, serves for cleaning said roller as the marked cloth is being passed through for the purpose of fastening in the marks. Immediately the marked cloth has passed between the rollers D and D the guard-rail H, and consequently the bar K, is raised from o the roller Das shown in dotted lines, in order to prevent the padding on the bar K from being burned by the heated roller D.

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the same direction, so that the cloth after being marked is formed into a roll in the space between the rollers D', E, and E. i

Various thicknesses of cloth may be passed through the rollers D and D', and to allow of this each journal ofl said roller D has its bearing in a vertical notch or recess made in the top of the side frame, thus allowing the roller vertical play.

The mode of operation is as follows: A templet having been made, a roll of cloth is placed on table B and a sufficient length unrolled to be covered by the templet, which templet is formed of a light cloth well loaded with pipeclay and glue and rolled. Resin or other powder of a sticky nature when heated is rubbed over the templet by a pad already patented in the United States, thus forming marks on the cloth. The templet is now removed and rolled up. The end of the cloth is passed between rollers D and D', where it is heated, and the powder caused to adhere to the cloth. Any little powder that does adhere to roller D is rubbed off by the doctor or rubber on the frame K. The material is automatically folded between the rollers D', E, and E', and the rollers E and E, revolving at thesame or aslightly-faster peripheral speed than the roller D, roll up the cloth au tomatically into a tolerably tight roll. This is then taken out.

1. In an apparatus for xin g a sticky powder such as described stenciled on cloth the combination with a heating-roller brought in rolling contact with the cloth of an absorbent material held against the roller in rubbing contact whereby the sticky matter sticking to the roller is rubbed off before it again comes down on the cloth and means whereby the ab- 4o sorbent material can be thrown off from the roller when the latter isvnot in movement.

2. rlphe combined apparatus for stenciling cloth, consisting of a long iat table A on which the cloth may be placed, a perforated stencil adapted to be laid out on the cloth, a

-heated roll D, and means for pressing the marked face of the cloth against the same, and rolls D', E and E all revolving at the same peripheral speed in the same direction and inclosing a trough-shaped space,whereby the material when once a roll is started is wound up automatically without the necessity of a hard nucleus.

3. The combined apparatus for stenciling cloth consisting of a long at table A on which the cloth may be placed, a perforated stencil adapted to be laid ont on the cloth to enable the marking of the latter with a resinous or other sticky powder, a heated roller D and means for pressing the marked face of the cloth against the same, an absorbent material `held against the roller whereby any of the powder sticking to the roller is rubbed off before it comes around again, and rolls D', E and E all revolving at the same peripheral speed in the same direction and inclosing a trough-shaped space, whereby the material l 

